Posted on Aug 13, 2021
Fact check: Chet Hanks video makes false claim about vaccine safety and UFOs
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Actor and musician Chet Hanks, the son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, claims there is more evidence supporting the existence of UFOs than for the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Hanks, whose parents were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the early stages of the pandemic, recently took to Instagram to share his controversial stance on vaccinations.
"There's more evidence of UFOs being real than that vaccine being healthy for you, just saying," Hanks asserts in an Aug. 11 video with more than 260,000 views. "If the aliens are out there, I'm ready for y'all to come get me."
His comments follow a previous video, in which he jokingly encouraged people to get vaccinated and then yelled "PSYCH!" He proceeded to falsely compare the coronavirus pandemic to the flu.
Actor and musician Chet Hanks, the son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, claims there is more evidence supporting the existence of UFOs than for the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Hanks, whose parents were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the early stages of the pandemic, recently took to Instagram to share his controversial stance on vaccinations.
"There's more evidence of UFOs being real than that vaccine being healthy for you, just saying," Hanks asserts in an Aug. 11 video with more than 260,000 views. "If the aliens are out there, I'm ready for y'all to come get me."
His comments follow a previous video, in which he jokingly encouraged people to get vaccinated and then yelled "PSYCH!" He proceeded to falsely compare the coronavirus pandemic to the flu.
Fact check: Chet Hanks video makes false claim about vaccine safety and UFOs
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